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Min Aung Hlaing

Thailand just gave Myanmar what it craved, and it wasn’t humanitarian aid

The junta was so happy with the news that it dominated the first five pages of the Myanmar newspaper, even as thousands lay dead or dying in rubble.

  • Zach Hope

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Thai protesters lay posters condemning Myanmar General Min Aung Hlaing on top of a sheet covered in fake blood in Bangkok, Thailand. Protesters gathered to oppose the presence of the junta leader, who is attending a regional summit for the first time since the military coup that brought him to power.

Myanmar chief feted by leaders as bombs fall

As the junta leader shook hands in Bangkok, the UN said it had received 14 reports of attacks despite a promised halt to the bombing after the earthquake.

  • Zach Hope
Rescue workers are seen working at the collapsed construction building.

What it is like to wait for a miracle at Bangkok’s grey mountain of destruction

I’ve been looking at this mound of death for days. Those poor people trapped inside. What they endured, where they might be.

  • Zach Hope
A Buddhist monk walks near a collapsed pagoda in Mandalay after Friday’s earthquake.

Quake disaster has exposed a Trump-sized void on the world stage. China is stepping in

The US has not been perfect in its application of soft power over the years, but diplomacy and aid are preferable to war and weapons.

  • Michael Ruffles
A damaged building in Myanmar’s capital, Naypyitaw.

Even as the earthquake death toll rose in Myanmar, the junta’s bombs kept falling

The Myanmar military kept dropping bombs on its own country even after Friday’s earthquake left at least 1600 people dead. The fate of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi is unknown.

  • Michael Ruffles and Lucy Macken
Rescuers work to find survivors in Bangkok.

Rescuers tread lightly to find survivors they know are still breathing

Although the violence of the Bangkok building collapse in the massive earthquake is sapping hope that the rest of the missing will be found alive, not all is lost.

  • Zach Hope
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Myanmar soldiers pass in review during the Armed Forces Day ceremony in the new capital of Naypyitaw in 2007, the first time Western journalists were allowed to view the new city.

Earthquake turns Myanmar’s shiny capital city to dust

Now the brilliant white streets and eight-lane roads of the capital Naypyitaw are veined with gaping splits and cracks, its prized airport in ruins.

  • Verity Bowman, Sarah Newey and Nandi Theint
Junta leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing has vowed to “annihilate” the military’s opponents in Myanmar.

Losing ground to rebels, Myanmar junta tries an olive branch

Just as resistance forces appear close to capturing the country’s second-biggest city, Mandalay, military rulers put up a new proposal.

  • Sui-Lee Wee
Myanmar floods.

After Vietnam, Typhoon Yagi came for war-ravaged Myanmar

Even before the typhoon, the UN estimated 18.6 million people out of a total population of 55 million needed humanitarian assistance.

  • Zach Hope
Economics professor Sean Turnell at his Sydney home.

Australia’s least likely spy on tipping the balance in a brutal civil war

Sean Turnell was Aung San Suu Kyi’s financial Mr Fix-it and says everything is pointing to the defeat of Myanmar’s junta.

  • Michael Ruffles

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